bionic4ever 
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No-o-o-o!
*Peers around the corner!* Bats?
Reply #1761. Nov 08 10, 6:26 PM
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| lesley153
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Sorry, Beth - not real bats - just me really. Real bats can't get in here. You're perfectly safe, I promise.
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Reply #1762. Nov 08 10, 6:51 PM
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bionic4ever
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*Waves happily as she comes back into room!*
Reply #1763. Nov 08 10, 7:04 PM
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| lesley153
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Oh thank goodness!
*does Happy Dance*
*thud* |
Reply #1764. Nov 08 10, 7:29 PM
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| Lochalsh
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*Using my powers of echolocation, I sweep Lesley up from the floor and return her posthaste to the BedfordBatCave.*
Reply #1765. Nov 08 10, 7:35 PM
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| lesley153
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Lesley is grateful.
There are no bats in the BedfordBatCave either!
Just one Old Bat, who doesn't fly, or echolocate, or hang upside down. Ever. |
Reply #1766. Nov 08 10, 7:41 PM
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| veronikkamarrz
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I know nothing about CO detectors, but recently (one by one) the smoke detectors in my house started beeping. I only had expired batteries in the drawer, but I figured they were better than the 'beeping' ones...Not really. It was far too late to hop in the car and head for Wal-Mart, so I disconnected the things, and hoped to not have a deadly fire while I slept. I didn't. Got new power the next day, and then the beeping started again, downstairs in the office...Oh well, the price of safety.
Reply #1767. Nov 08 10, 8:15 PM
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| lesley153
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| Yes, I've had the beeping smoke detectors too! All I have to do to make the downstairs one go off is toast. What price indeed. :( |
Reply #1768. Nov 08 10, 9:38 PM
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| Professer
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I had a smoke alarm fitted 2 years ago by the firebrigade, last year when my flat was rewired i had a second one fitted that is connected to the mains so i have too and neither have gone off when i cook toast.
Hope you are doing well Lesley i am still on the hamster wheel of life.
Reply #1769. Nov 09 10, 2:50 AM
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Jazmee27
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All mom has to do to trip one of her smoke alarms is use the oven!
Reply #1770. Nov 09 10, 3:43 AM
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| lesley153
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I had a homecare arrangement with British Gas. They looked after the heating system, and anything else I was prepared to pay them to look after.
An engineer arrived to do the yearly gas boiler service, and sold me a carbon monoxide detector, the one that's just packed up, to sit facing the boiler. I paid £36 for it. He also started lecturing me about religion - 144,000 sealed souls, that sort of thing.
After he'd gone, I found that I could have bought it for about £10 less... and I told British Gas that I didn't appreciate being preached at, and didn't want him back. Just like I complained about the one who went upstairs and, without asking, opened all the bedroom doors and tramped in all the bedrooms. *fume* Don't send him here again either!
The newest model, which is made to last for six years, is £30. That works out at £5 a year, which is peanuts. I'll get one if or when I get any gas appliances in the house.
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How annoying to find that you've run out of batteries. I usually have a few lying around, admittedly not always the ones I want! - and yesterday, when my key fob (im)mobiliser thingy was playing up quite badly, I was delighted to have replacement batteries in the car.
Many years ago, before sprog could drive, my child-free cousin came to "look after" him while I had a week in hospital. She did a lousy job of looking after him, practically and emotionally, but she did try to convert the house to a clone of hers.
One of the things she did was to throw out a carrierbagful of light bulbs.
"You don't keep a stock of things like that. They take up space. If a bulb goes, you go out and buy a new one."
She threw out a lot of things on the premise that I could always replace them "if" I needed to. I've got them because I want them, and I wouldn't need to replace them if you'd left them where they were where they weren't doing anybody any harm... Have I mentioned that I haven't spoken to her for eight years?
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Gary, pleased to hear that yours hasn't gone off, and that you're on the wheel. it's a big wheel. It has to be - we're all on it.
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Bad luck, Jazmee's mum! Does she need a new oven, or just a hammer for the smoke detector? |
Reply #1771. Nov 09 10, 7:19 AM
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bionic4ever
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My smoke alarm is the same as Jaymee's mom's - it goes off at every little thing! HUD rules say it must be directly over my stove (which is not vented) so almost every time I cook...
Reply #1772. Nov 09 10, 7:48 AM
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| lesley153
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| Then HUD has obviously never done any cooking in the real world. I suppose you have to keep a long prodding-stick close to hand? What a nuisance. |
Reply #1773. Nov 09 10, 8:03 AM
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bionic4ever
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I can reach the smoke detector - unless I am feeling very stiff that day. (It's a small stove.)
Reply #1774. Nov 09 10, 9:45 AM
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| veronikkamarrz
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My key fob 'thingy' died, too! I couldn't get the case open (didn't want to break it) so I had someone do it for me...Well, it worked fine for one day, and now, not at all! I know it isn't the battery. I have a spare somewhere...:)
Reply #1775. Nov 09 10, 10:30 AM
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| lesley153
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A small pointy stick then, Beth?
VM, success depends on the someone. If you can't find a professional thingy repairer, the next best thing, if not better, is probably a tame neighbourhood ten-year-old.
My spare batteries are on my shopping list... |
Reply #1776. Nov 09 10, 11:55 AM
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| veronikkamarrz
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No 10 year olds in my neighborhood...I'll ask the Grandson, He's 8.
Batteries on my list, too. Usually, I leave it on the kitchen counter. :)
Reply #1777. Nov 09 10, 1:03 PM
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| lesley153
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Yes, eight-year-olds are good. :)
You know where you leave your shopping lists? That's impressive. I either make one and lose it, or try to remember what I need, and sometimes use the "memo" or "notes" function on my phone, and occasionally I even remember to look at it. But usually I haven't got a clue. |
Reply #1778. Nov 09 10, 2:00 PM
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| Lochalsh
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"But usually I haven't got a clue."
Me neither. I can't even remember what I was doing at this time yesterday, though I can still recite such as the following, and by heart:
MY mind lets go a thousand things,
Like dates of wars and deaths of kings,
And yet recalls the very hour—
’T was noon by yonder village tower,
And on the last blue noon in May— 5
The wind came briskly up this way,
Crisping the brook beside the road;
Then, pausing here, set down its load
Of pine-scents, and shook listlessly
Two petals from that wild-rose tree.
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All this business about long-term and short-term memory really is true!
Reply #1779. Nov 09 10, 2:32 PM
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| Lochalsh
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That "5" doesn't belong there; I'm not so obsessive about poetry that I count lines (or not usually)!
Reply #1780. Nov 09 10, 2:33 PM
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